@rune: the punchline is that there’s actually A BUNCH of supervillains EXACTLY such copy quickie/xerox of a previous hero, with Reverse Flash/Dr. Zoom being possibly the most notorious (beside Bizarro).

Furthermore, Reverse Flash’s powers are a little different. They tap into the same “non Einsteinian” energy source, but somewhat uses it differently, such as by twisting space-time instead simply moving from point A-B in a nanosecond. At any rate, the ability was central to the recent DC reboot, which seemed a disappointing “nuked the frigid” way of concluding the awesome Brightest Day, Blackest Night story arcs, making them seem like nothing more then an elaborate excu

*ahem* …excuse to resurrect a character who died when I was in preschool, just for that corny purpose. I haven’t followed DC since. I like to pretend that “Brightest Day” was the franchise’s grand finale.

Yes, and I am sick of it. They rebooted only twice while I grew up, Crisis on infinite Earths in ’87, then Zero Hour ten years later, yet there have been FIVE since ’97. That’s pathetic, and I wish they could just, finally MOVE ON with a few characters, either leaving them dead or retired, once and for all. It seemed they finally were doing that with Blackest Night, but, who really knows? I’m done.